Ramp Analysis of the Net Load Under Different Penetration Scenarios

Abstract

In the last decades, climate change has placed the issue of environmental and social sustainability at the heart of discussions about energy consumption .In the fight against climate change, the European Union has to promote the development of renewable energy sources. Several OS/TSO are claiming that the ramp requirements due to renewable generation are increasing and require new flexibility mechanisms to provide firm generation ramp support. The objective of this work is to perform an historical analysis of the firm generation ramp requirement of Portugal according to the penetration level of renewable generation, and to extend this analysis to future scenarios with different levels of penetration of wind and solar generation.